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But now men are on the watch towers; they observe how every one of you behaves
himself in respecting religion and in preserving the laws. They see that, ever since
the passing of the law for restoring the power of the tribunes, only one senator,
and he too a very insignificant one, 1 has been condemned. And though they do nor blame this, yet they
have nothing which they can very much commend. For there is no credit in being
upright in a case where there is no one who is either able or who endeavours to
corrupt one.
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1 The senator was Dolabella
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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